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PyData London News May 2025¶

96th Meetup, hosted by Man Group¶

@PyDataLondon¶

PyData Code of Conduct¶

https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct/¶

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NumFOCUS¶

US-based charity in support of open-source scientific computing
Financial and admin support for many open-source projects
Support for many community events
https://numfocus.org

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PyData¶

Educational program by NumFOCUS
A global community
235 groups across 80 countries world-wide
239,000+ users world-wide (+23,000 per year!)
https://www.meetup.com/pro/pydata/

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PyData London¶

14,500+ members running a monthly meetup and annual conference
All run by volunteers
Propose a Talk: https://london.pydata.org/submit-a-talk/

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Man Group¶

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The world's largest publicly traded hedge fund company
Lots of open positions in both tech and research!
Sponsors PyData London ❤️❤️❤️

Upcoming Conferences¶

Courtesy of https://pythondeadlin.es/¶

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Save the date: June 6-8, PyData London 2025! 🎉¶

Tutorials: Friday, June 6. Talks: Saturday-Sunday, June 7-8¶

Location: Convene Sancroft, St. Paul's¶

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Tonight's Schedule¶

18:30 Doors open¶

19:00 Talks start ⬅️ YOU ARE HERE¶

19:15 Main Talk #1 + Q&A -> John Carney¶

19:45 📣 Community Announcements 📣¶

19:50 Break 🥂¶

20:05 Main Talk #2 + Q&A -> Saurav Maheshkar¶

20:45 ⚡ Lightning Talk⚡ -> Victor Zommers¶

20:50 ⚡ Lightning Talk⚡ -> Anand Rawat¶

20:55 to 21:00 We're done 🔜 The Banker 🍻¶

1st Main Talk: Platforms for Valuable AI Products: Iteration, Iteration and Iteration - John Carney¶

Abstract: In data science experimentation is vital, the more we can experiment, the more we can learn. However quick iteration isn't sufficient, we also need to be able to easily promote these experiments to production to deliver value. This requires all the stability and reliability of any production system.

John will disucssed building platforms that treat iteration as a first class consideration, the role of open source libraries, and balancing trade-offs.

2nd Main Talk: Implementing Grounded AI Code Agents - Saurav Maheshkar¶

Abstract:
With context window on the rise, there's been an increase in the number of tools who depend on entire codebases. In this talk, Saurav will discuss some alternative techniques one could use to provide quality relevant context to build better AI Code Agents with some example projects.

1️⃣⚡ The Glicko-2 Algorithm in the Context of Go (Baduk, Weiqi): A Smarter Framework for Competitive Ranking in Zero-Sum Game - Victor Zommers¶

2️⃣⚡ Automated Prompt Engineering for Deploying AI Application at Scale - Anand Rawat¶

🕊️ Tweet #pydatalondon and @pydatalondon 🦆¶